Recent PhD Graduates

Our former PhD students have gone on to successful residencies at places such as Washington University in St. Louis and Emory University. Our alumni hold prestigious jobs at NIH, the FDA, and in other leading and biotechnological institutions across the country.

Our former PhD students have gone on to successful residencies at places such as Washington University in St. Louis and Emory University. Our alumni hold prestigious jobs at NIH, the FDA, and in other leading and biotechnological institutions across the country.

Juan Gonzalez Velez
Program: Physiology
Advisor: Dr. Robert Sokol
Dissertation title: Cervical Remodeling/Ripening at Term and Preterm Delivery: The Same Mechanism Initiated by Different Mediators and Different Effector Cells.
Postgraduate positions: Perinatology Physician, University of California-San Francisco

Gurdip Daffu
Program: Molecular Biology & Genetics
Advisor: Dr. John Kamholz
Dissertation title: An Investigation of the role of the Proteolipid Protein Specific Domain in Central Nervous System Myelin.
Postgraduate positions: Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University Medical Center; Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University School of Medicine

Mark Smyczynski
Program: Medical Physics
Advisor: Dr. Michael King and Dr. Otto Muzik
Dissertation title: An Investigation of the Impact and Correction of Respiratory Motion on the Detection of Small Lung Lesions in SPECT Imaging.
Postgraudate positions: Radiation Oncologist, University of Massachusetts Medical Center

Muthulekha Swamydas
Program: Anatomy & Cell Biology
Advisor: Dr. Robert Skoff
Dissertation title: Role of Hormones in the Sexual Dimorphism of Oligodendrocytes
Postgraduate postions: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Biologist/Senior Research Associate, National Institutes of Health